Mark Miller is a senior attorney in Pacific Legal Foundation’s Property Rights practice. He has litigated several high-profile cases, including Weyerhaeuser v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, which resulted in a unanimous win for property rights at the Supreme Court of the United States, and served as second chair in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., another unanimous win at SCOTUS for property owners against federal government overreach.
Mark first joined PLF in 2014, but in 2020 he left to take on a new role as general counsel and then chief of staff for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. As Governor Noem’s longest-serving chief of staff, Mark worked behind the scenes to promote smaller government, cut red tape, defend individual rights, protect liberty, and advance free-market principles. In 2023, he returned home to PLF.
He frequently writes and appears in print, and on radio and TV, before state legislative committees, and in other public settings. He has been published in The Wall Street Journal, and his PLF work has been featured on CBS News, ABC’s The View, CBN, and Fox News. He regularly appears on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel as a Supreme Court commentator.
Mark attended college and law school at the University of Florida, earning both degrees with honors. He elbow-clerked for U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. and Florida State Appellate Court Judge Emerson R. Thompson, Jr. Mark credits both judges with instilling in him a love for the Bill of Rights, especially the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Mark and his wife Mindy, a Catholic school principal, have four children. Two of them are University of Florida alums like their dad, and two of them are University of Notre Dame grads (or a grad-to-be) like their mom. If you are looking for Mark on fall weekends, you’ll most likely find him rooting for either the Gators in the Swamp or his beloved Fightin’ Irish in the House that Knute Rockne and Lou Holtz Built.
Mark is a member of the bar in the states of Florida and New Jersey.
